What's Up With This???!
Question: I'm a real big Frankenstein movie fan; recently, I picked up a used copy of some film called "Frankenstein's Bloody Terror", but after watching the film, through and through, the FRankenstein Monster was nowhere to be scene....only vampires and werewolfs....
If there is no Frankenstein, why did they call it Frankenstein; even though it was a used DVD, I still feel ripped off...
Answers: I'm a real big Frankenstein movie fan; recently, I picked up a used copy of some film called "Frankenstein's Bloody Terror", but after watching the film, through and through, the FRankenstein Monster was nowhere to be scene....only vampires and werewolfs....
If there is no Frankenstein, why did they call it Frankenstein; even though it was a used DVD, I still feel ripped off...
...well, you weren't the only one who was duped by this movie; the audiences who partook in the theatrical release of this deceptive film, were just as perplexed. There IS a story behind this, though...
The story goes that director/producer Sam Sherman was obligated to produced a Frankenstein film, on the cheap; however, for whatever reason, he was not able to follow through with the production of such a film. However, to appease the production company, whom he promised the film for, he took an imported Spanish werewolf film (...star Paul Naschy's first turn as the lycanthropic-cursed anti-hero, Walemir Daninsky, in "The Mark of the Wolfman"), threw together a quick make-shift prologue, explaining that an offshoot branch of the Frankenstein family, called Wolfstein, were plagued by the curse of the werewolf, slapped the Frankenstein title on the film, and submitted this film to the studio executives, who were probably just as perplexed as the pending audiences, but released the film, anyways...
...the strategy was pretty campy and exploitive, but that was the typical motis operendis of producer/director Sam Sherman, and his partner Al Adamson, on many of the films, which they directed and produced...
...for further details, check out the webpage, below!!!
It was originaly released in Spain as
Marca del Hombre-lobo, La
"Mark of the Wolfman"
why they changed it is beyond me
I found this in the user comment section on the movie's imdb page
BTW--Frankenstein has nothing to do with this movie. The American distributor had promised theatre owners a film with the names "Frankenstein" and "Terror" in the title. Then they got this werewolf-vampire one. So the American version has a silly prologue linking the Frankenstein family to the werewolf!!!
lol.. it's a conspiracy to fool Frankenstein's fans.
yup...sounds like you got ripped off